Medusa's Daughters : : Magic and Monstrosity From Women Writers on the Fin-De-Siécle

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Call Number: Fantasy / Medusa's Daughters
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Illustrated by Robert Kraiza.
Introduction / Theodora Goss -- An Egyptian cigarette / Kate Chopin -- The singer ; All hallows night / Lizette Woodworth Reese -- Luella Miller / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- The witch ; The white women ; The other side of a mirror / Mary Coleridge -- Dionea / Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) -- The dryads / A. Mary F. Robinson -- The white witch ; The changeling / Olive Custance -- Man-size in marble / E. Nesbit -- The love-talker ; Niamh / Ethna Carbery (Anne MacManus) ; The princess Baladina, her adventure / Willa Cather -- The watcher in the woods ; The white witch / Dora Sigerson Shorter -- Bewitched / Edith Wharton -- The farmer's bride ; The changeling / Charlotte New -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Ballad the bird-bridge ; The orchard of the moon / Rosamund Marriott Watson -- A white night / Charlotte Mew -- A drowned girl to her lover ; Hertha / Nora Hopper Chesson -- The hermit and the wild woman / Edith Wharton -- Nymphs ; The children of lir / Katherine Tynan -- The princess and the hedge-pig / E. Nesbit -- A castle in the air ; The mermaid's chapel / May Kendall -- A ballad of victory / Dollie Radford -- When I was a witch / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Atavism ; The fairy goldsmith ; Madman's song / Elinor Wylie -- A haunted house / Virginia Woolf -- Acknowledgments -- About the editor.
Medusa's daughters is a sinister Gothic delight, full of unrepentant witches, ghosts, dryads, and changelings. Goss is an expert guide to the strange codes of fin-de-siécle patriarch and the bold, monstrous women who defied them.

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